Capacitor MCP Server

Unofficial MCP server for the official Capacitor documentation. It gives AI assistants the current documentation for Capacitor v8, v7, v6 and next, the official and community plugin list, and the Capacitor posts from the Ionic blog — so they stop guessing plugin APIs and CLI flags. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Ionic or OutSystems.

Maintained by Capawesome.

Endpoint

The server is hosted and ready to use. No account, no token, no installation:

https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp

https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp

Installation

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http capacitor https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp

Claude Desktop / Claude.ai

Go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and enter:

• Name: Capacitor
• URL: https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp

Cursor

Or add .cursor/mcp.json to your project:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "capacitor": {
      "url": "https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Install in VS Code

Or add .vscode/mcp.json to your project:

{
  "servers": {
    "capacitor": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

Add the server to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "capacitor": {
      "serverUrl": "https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Zed

Add the server to your Zed settings.json:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "capacitor": {
      "url": "https://capacitor-mcp.capawesome.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Any client via npx

Clients that cannot connect to a remote server over HTTP can run this package, which proxies stdio to the hosted server:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "capacitor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@capawesome/capacitor-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Requires Node.js 22 or later.

Tools

| Tool | Purpose | Parameters | | ----------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | | search_docs | Search the documentation by keyword. Start here for any Capacitor question. | query (required), section, version, limit | | get_doc_page | Read a full documentation page returned by search_docs. | url (required), version | | list_plugins | List official and community Capacitor plugins. | query, source, limit | | list_blog_posts | List recent Capacitor posts from the Ionic blog. | — |

Versions

The documentation is available for Capacitor v8 (default), v7, v6 and next. Pass the version parameter to search_docs and get_doc_page to target a specific version.

Rate limits

The endpoint is limited to 100 requests per minute per IP. Requests over the limit are answered with 429 Too Many Requests; retry after a short wait.

Privacy

Your IP address is processed for rate limiting only. Queries and tool arguments are not stored, not logged beyond Cloudflare's standard edge logs, and never used for training.

Related

• Ionic Framework MCP Server — the same for the Ionic Framework documentation, components and usage examples.
• Capawesome MCP Server — the official MCP server for the Capawesome documentation and the Capawesome Cloud management API.
• Capawesome Cloud Live Updates — ship JavaScript, HTML and CSS changes to your app without an app store review.
• Capawesome Cloud Native Builds — build native iOS and Android apps in the cloud, without a Mac.
• Capawesome Cloud App Store Publishing — submit builds to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Attribution

The documentation content is © the Ionic team, licensed under Apache-2.0 and sourced from ionic-team/capacitor-docs. It is converted from MDX to Markdown for delivery over MCP and otherwise served unmodified in substance. The community plugin list comes from capawesome-team/awesome-capacitorjs. Blog excerpts come from the Ionic blog and link to the original post.

See NOTICE for the full attribution.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test

Set CAPACITOR_MCP_URL to point the proxy at a local server instead of the hosted one:

CAPACITOR_MCP_URL=http://localhost:8787/mcp node dist/index.js

License

See LICENSE.